Chapter I: Front Matter

THE MISBEHAVIORISTS

THE MISBEHAVIORISTS

PSEUDO-SCIENCE AND THE MODERN TEMPER

BY HARVEY WICKHAM

NEW YORK LINCOLN MAC VEAGH · THE DIAL PRESS LONGMANS, GREEN & COMPANY TORONTO 1928

COPYRIGHT, 1928, BY DIAL PRESS INCORPORATED

MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE VAIL-BALLOU PRESS, INC., BINGHAMTON, N. Y.

TO ALL ENQUIRING MINDS, AND TO THOSE DISTURBED BY THE APPARENT LOGIC IN MANY CURRENT THEORIES HOSTILE TO THEIR DEAREST CONVICTIONS, THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I--THE MODERN TEMPER 13

CHAPTER II--BEHAVIORISM FROM THE STANDPOINT OF A PSYCHOLOGIST 22
1. The Missing Mr. Mind 22
2. An Undecided Synapse 35
3. Eliza Does not Cross the Ice 43
4. Tinks! Tinks! Kwaks! Kwaks! 54

CHAPTER III--DR. MCDOUGALL’S X 67
1. At the Beck of Thirteen Masters 67
2. Psyche Wields the Broom 79

CHAPTER IV--A SLAVE TO DREAMS 88
1. The Confessions of Sigmund Freud 88
2. The Elaboration of a Fiction 104
3. Two Oft-Thwarted Passions 108
4. More Suppositions 117
5. Freud the Metaphysician 129

CHAPTER V--THE FAIRY HALLS OF SCIENCE 139
1. The Idols of the Tribe 139
2. Some Nebulous Matters 150
3. The Bed of Procrustes 159
4. The New Physics 164
5. Chance 174

CHAPTER VI--THE FAMILY TREE 186
1. Are Monkeys People? 186
2. Burbanking the Human Race 201
3. Salvation by Who’s Who 213

CHAPTER VII--THIS UNBELIEVING WORLD 225
1. Dorsey 225
2. The Brazen Bough 242
3. St. Paul as Scapegoat 258
4. The Church as Scapegoat 267
5. The Stories of Duran 280

CHAPTER VIII--THE ANCIENT TEMPER 292

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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DR. JOHN WATSON 56
“Give me the baby”

PROFESSOR WILLIAM MCDOUGALL 74
Are we trying to say something?

DR. SIGMUND FREUD 104
He tells us his dreams

ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM 202
The Devil take the hindmost!

DR. GEORGE A. DORSEY 238
“We do not use the brains we have”

LEWIS BROWNE 250
Stranger than fiction

WILL DURANT 280
Almost an institution

THE MISBEHAVIORISTS